Butter Creek Ranch

Butter Creek Ranch

Hunting, stays and open country in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.

Plan a trip

What can you do in October?

See the full year

29 things in October

Rooster pheasant in tall grass

Upland Birds on Preserves (guided and self-guided)

Hunting · Mid-September – March

A morning's bag of pheasants, chukar and Huns

Wild Chukar, Hungarian Partridge and Quail

Hunting · October – January

Shorthaired pointer in an orange collar

Bring Your Own Dog Days

Hunting · Mid-September – March

Hunting party gathered at camp

Corporate Group Hunts

Hunting · September – March

Hunter with a bull elk in open timber

Drop Camps

Hunting · September – November

Hunter with a large bull elk on frosty grass

Mt. Emily Trophy Bull

Hunting · September – November

Log hunting lodge with lit windows among pines at dusk

Hunting Lodge

Stays · Year-round

Hunter with a large bull elk on a grassy slope

Guided Elk (archery and rifle)

Hunting · September – November

Hunter glassing open country with a spotting scope at sunset

Hunting: Hunt Oregon

Hunt Oregon runs the hunting on Butter Creek Ranch: elk, mule deer, whitetail, pronghorn, bear, turkey and upland birds on more than 150,000 acres of private ground in the Blue Mountains.

Timber-frame lodge with a long porch above golden hills

Stays

Lodges, a mountain cabin, river stays and a wall-tent camp, each set apart on the ranch.

Long table set for dinner in a ranch meadow at golden hour

Events

Retreats, weddings, reunions and rodeo weekends, held on a working ranch with room to spread out.

Bull elk bedded in tall golden grass

Explore

Tours, rides, a cattle drive, trails and evenings out in open country.

Shooter behind a rifle scope in open grassland

Learn

Instruction in bird dogs, shooting, hunting, cooking and backcountry skills.

Folded wool blankets and skeins of yarn on a wooden bench

Ranch Products

Beef, lamb and wool from the ranch, plus gift certificates and a few goods.

Places

Seven places on one ranch.

See every place

White ranch house with a porch, barn and corrals

The Farmhouse

Butter Creek, south of Pilot Rock

Timber-frame lodge with a long porch above golden hills

The French Place

Big Butter Creek, Morrow County

Small log cabin in a frosty mountain meadow

Battle Mountain Lodge

Battle Mountain, north of Ukiah

Steel truss bridge over the river, irrigated fields and a grain elevator beyond

Mud Springs

The Umatilla River at Nolin

Long table set for dinner in a ranch meadow at golden hour

Meacham Guard Station

Meacham, in the Blue Mountains

Milky Way over a lone pine and dark hills

Camas Creek Cabins

Nelson Meadows, on Camas Creek

Bowhunter on the rimrock at sunset

Storm Mountain Camp

Storm Mountain

The country

Rimrock, bunchgrass and timber.

High ridges, river canyons and long seasons. The land is worked every day, and guests share it with the stock and the wildlife.

See the country

Truss bridge over the river and the grain elevator on the valley floor

Two bull elk in a timbered meadow

News from the ranch

A few letters a year.

Openings, seasons and what is happening on the ground.